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Eero Saarinen
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Early Dining table, model 174F

Knoll Associates
USA, c. 1956 / c. 1957-60
enameled cast iron, lacquered wood, laminate 29 h × 77¾ w × 48 d in (74 × 197 × 122 cm)

estimate: $1,500–2,000

result: $1,875

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This early example features a heavy base made of cast iron, unlike later examples which were made of aluminum. Fabric manufacturer's label to underside ‘Knoll Associates, Inc. 575 Madison Ave., NY 22’.
provenance: Rago Sollo, Lambertville, 1 November 1997, Lot 348 | Acquired from the previous by the present owner, Private Collection, New York
literature: Knoll Furniture: 1938-1960, Rouland and Rouland, ppg. 121-122, 123

One finds that many different shapes are equally logical—some exciting, some earthbound, some soaring. The choice has really become a sculptor's choices.

Eero Saarinen

Eero Saarinen 1910–1961

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Born in 1910, Eero Saarinen was surrounded by design his entire life; his father, Eliel Saarinen was an architect and director of the Cranbrook Academy of art and his mother, Loja Saarinen, was an acclaimed textile artist. In 1929, Saarinen traveled to Paris to study sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière before enrolling in the Yale architecture program. He returned to Cranbrook in 1934 where he met fellow designer and friend, Charles Eames. In 1947, Saarinen won a competition to design a monument for Thomas Jefferson in St. Louis. His Gateway Arch would mark one of the many triumphs of his short but incredibly productive career.

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